Beginning tomorrow, the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock in the United States, both live and on-demand. This is the second year in a row that Peacock has exclusively streamed the Eurovision Song Contest in the United States.
Two-time Olympian, NBC correspondent and Eurovis…
Despite the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics proved to be the athletes.
Competing the past two weeks amidst rising international tensions, pandemic quarantines and with a heavy-handed host, the participants injected a bit…
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has picked the hosts for its coverage of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics — and two of them have been in the news this week.
Figure skating announcers Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joined by Terry Gannon to call the expected extravaganza from Chinese capital, we’ve learned. The…
NBC likely will never admit it, but the Comcast-owned network must be so relieved that the Tokyo Olympics is finally over.
Just over 24 hours after the 17 days of the pandemic-delayed Games of the XXXII Olympiad wrapped up, the network is trying to put a golden spin on losing results. Insisting that its small screen…
Ultimately lacking the Covid catastrophe or shutdown that many predicted, the Tokyo Olympics officially ended today in a near empty somber stadium with little more than a handful of athletes and a Japanese term for "thank you" on the jumbotron
“Arigato,” indeed.
"The Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020 were the games of hope…
Hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick filed suit Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court against NBC Sports, saying he was wrongfully dismissed for making a comment about a desired “threesome” with an on-air partner while other commentators said equally racy remarks and went unpunished.
Roenick, age 50, said the network applied a…
EXCLUSIVE: The Disney Channel’s forthcoming new animated comedy series Amphibia features the voice of Brenda Song and brings us to a “frog-out-of-water” world that is not only fun and fantastical but brings Thai culture to the forefront. In the new featurette for the series, creator and executive producer Annie…
The well-wired Asian nation's culture and technology was heavily on patriotic display tonight in NBC's coverage of the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Games. However, it was the music of South Korea that really owned the beat and heart of the tape-delayed event and almost turned the Olympics into the best Grammys…
Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, and Terry Gannon will host NBC’s primetime coverage of the Closing Ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Coverage begins in primetime, Sunday, Feb. 25 at 8 pm ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC.
The use of the figure skating commentating trio as ceremony hosts was…
Johnny Weir, whose sartorial splendor sadly was missing from last weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, will return to NBC Sports’ coverage of the Kentucky Derby this year, wearing a Tweet-powered brooch, NBC Sports happily announced this morning. Weir has put his style to work for NBC Sports for the past two…
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It may have been a dirty trick to play on Cecily Strong, but the big talker of the night came when Obama announced that, because he’s “a mellow sort of guy” he was bringing out Luther, his Anger Translator – aka, Keegan-Michael Key from Comedy Central's K…
NBC Sports announced its deploying its figure skating analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski to NBC’s Super Bowl XLIX pre-game show to offer their “unique take on the big game and the events surrounding it.”
NBCU unveiled the two as an on-air team during the Sochi Olympics in February 2014. Following the Sochi…